ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,004, issued on May 12, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery" was invented by Masanori Sugimori (Osaka, Japan), Yasunori Baba (Hyogo, Japan), Katsunori Yanagida (Hyogo, Japan) and Nobuhiro Hirano (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which is an example of the embodiment of the present invention, a separator comprises a porous base material, a first filler layer that includes phosphate particles and is formed on one side of the base material, and a second filler layer that includes inorganic part...